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This was literally decades ago (the 1980s), but what I used to do was to "splice" characters by mixing and matching the traits of my heroes and heroines.

For instance, in one novel, I gave the fictitious heroine my jet black hair, my real-life boss, and my English pub, while otherwise keeping her true to her "other" counterpart.

I gave the fictitious hero the real life heroine's blonde locks and sense of adventure, while giving him many of my other traits.

Basically, you have to make each "person" a few things that the original clearly is "not.

No one recognized either of us for who we were, and people had quite a few laughs when they found out.

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